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ADVERTISING FRAME. No. 376,265. Patented Jan. 10, 1888.

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ROBERT N. SEARLES, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE ATHLOPHOROS COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

ADVERTISING-FRAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 376,265, dated January 10, 1888.

Application filed November 21, 1887. Serial No. 255,715. (No model.)

To all whomit may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT N. SEARLES, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Advertising-Cards; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure 1, a front or face view; Fig. 2, a perspective view of the frame with the panels open; Fig. 3, a vertical section through the open panels, showing the brackets and articles supported thereon.

This invention relates to the construction of an advertising-frame having for its object to construct the frame with openings through it, and with brackets on the rear of said openings, and so that the articles to be advertised may be set into the brackets on the rear of the frame and there supported, presenting the advertisement on the face of the article through the opening in the frame; and in a frame of such construction, as hereinafter described,

the invention consists.

The frame as here represented presents a surface in a flat plane, and the frame con-- sists of a pair of uprights, A A, which form standards, as in an easel. These standards are connected by a bar, 13, near the bottom, and by a bar, C, near the top, parallel to the bar at the bottom. These two cross-bars are connected by upright bars D E, forming a central panel, F, which is adapted to receive a print, plate, or other attractive deviee'which would naturally call attention to the frame.

On the frame at the bottom, in rear of one of the panels, a bracket, G, is attached, which forms a seat to receive an article-say a bottlc, as represented in Fig. 1, the wrapper of which will be exposed through that panel. The bracket is constructed with an upwardlyprojecting flange, H, which retains the bottle in its position. 'For the other panel a like bracket, I, is applied, and this panel is represented as divided into two parts by a crossbar, J, upon which brackets K K are attached, and which, like the brackets G I, form recesses on theback, into which articles may be set and exposed through the panels. These brackets K K are represented as of a springlike character, which will bear against the article andpress it against the rear side of the bars, forming the panel, as represented in Fig. 3. This is desirable in the case of smaller articles, such as indicated in Fig. 1.

. The frame is provided with a brace, L, attached by its upper end to the upper bar, C,

and extending diagonally downward, as seen in Fig. 3, so as to support the frame in substantially an upright position.

The frame may be highly ornamental and very attractive. The frame forms a neat border around the panels, and so that the advertisement upon the articles will appear as if mounted directly in the frame independent of the articles themselves; and because of the easy removability of the articles they may be interchanged, so that one article may stand exposed for a certain time, and then another be introduced. These frames are designed more especially for remedies or toilet articles. The construction is simple and cheap, yet highly attractive.

I do not wish to be understood as claiming, broadly, a frame carrying upon it articles as an advertisement for such articles, as I am aware that such frames have heretofore been made; but in such case the articles themselves have been attached directly to'the face of the frame, and so that the entire article appeared on the front and not arranged upon the back, so that the advertisement thereon will appear as if mounted in the frame without the presence of the article itself.

, In some cases it is desirable that there shall be a projecting arm above the article to be suspended, as represented in broken lines in the illustration; but this arm may be dispensed with.

I claim- The herein -described advertising -frame consisting of uprights and cross-bars forming open panels, the frame constructed with bracket-s in rear of the said openings, the rear edge of the said brackets being upwardly turned, and so as to support the articles to be exposed through the openings in the frame, and the frame provided with a brace upon its rear side forthe supportof the frame, substantially as described.

' ROBT. N. SEARLES.

' Witnesses:

J. A. RICHARDSON, A. G. BUSHNELL. 

